Re: Referring to controls via loops - comments and suggestions

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In message <#mqAQdZRFHA.2132@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Steve Le Monnier <steve_lemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

What is it that you are trying to achieve by this? There may be another
approach.



I was trying to reduce the amount of code to write when preparing the
controls and they all need to behave the same way, hence tryin to refer to
each one via a loop.

I know this isn't the in thing to say, but VB6 allowed you to append strings
to the end of a control and then evaluate the entire statement as a command
line and not text.

That said, I have found a better way of doing it and that is loading all my
controls into an array and then referencing them via the array e.g.

_lnkCostCenters[0] = this.lnkCostCentre1;

_lnkCostCenters[1] = this.lnkCostCentre2;

_lnkCostCenters[2] = this.lnkCostCentre3;

for ( int i = 0; i < _controlCount; i++ )

{

_lnkCostCenters[i].Text = "Department";

} 

Ah, I see. You could always subclass the control.

--
Steve Walker
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